Quilting and other Things

The guild speaker and workshop teacher this month was Al Cote . The class was on making a quilted rug. On Saturday we layered up the fabrics and trimmed it down to the size of the batting. Did some doodling then stitched lines and started removing fabric. I meant to take a photo before I started the removal process but forgot. So this is taken after the first round of removing fabrics and part way through the second round. Near the end of the afternoon he had everyone put their project down on the floor for admiring. It was a fun day and we certainly had a great collection of rugs in progress.  It was a really fun day.  Karen came too so it was even better because I got to stitch with my sister. The next day I continued removing fabric stopping every once in a while to throw it on the floor and look at it to see how it was looking. By the end of Sunday, this is how it looked. I still have a few pieces to remove before continuing with the quilting and final s...

On Monday evening I went to the first of three workshops on low light photography at the Aquarium. It was a lot of fun. There was a talk at first about the exposure triangle and settings that might be useful then we went down into the display areas and tried what we had learned about. At first I was having problems getting the photos light enough. Talked to the instructor for a few minutes and suddenly realized that at one point when I was reading the book about my camera, I had limited the auto ISO setting so it couldn't go above 6400. When in and removed that and the pictures were much better. 1/15 sec at f5.6 ISO 6400 95mm 1/15 sec at f4.5 ISO 6400 42mm  The octopus was curled up right out front against the glass.  1/200 sec at f3.5 ISO 12800 18mm 1/200 sec at f3.5 ISO 10000 18mm The sword fish was just hanging out on the roof of the tunnel.  The ray swam past at intervals.  So did some sharks.  This was the best of the group.  ...